Philosopher Quotes

The only way to truly conquer something, as every great philosopher and geneticist will tell you, is to love it.

What's a philosopher?' said Brutha. Someone who's bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting,' said a voice in his head.

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Camus believed in dialogue and diplomacy, and enlisted his work as a philosopher to the need to find nonviolent solutions, whereas Sartre called for violent conflicts and justified terror.

Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding.

Cowardice was undoubtedly one of the most terrible vices - thus spoke Yeshua Ha-Nozri. 'No, philosopher, I disagree with you: it is the most terrible vice!

The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.

I am. I think. I will.

I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.

I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher. -Video barbam et pallium; philosophum nondum video

The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.

Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought.

Why is it apparently the philosopher who is expected to be "easier" and not some scientist or other who is even more inaccessible to the same readers?

To become a philosopher, start by walking very slowly.

The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder.

A philosopher is a person who doesn't care which side his bread is buttered on; he knows he eats both sides anyway.

The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.

All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts.

I already knew about this friendship between St. John Paul II and this philosopher [Ana Teresa Tymieniecka] when I was in Buenos Aires. It was known. Also her books are known.

I am not a philosopher.

A philosopher once said, 'It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results.' Well, they don't!

This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three.

By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound

A heathen philosopher once asked a Christian, 'Where is God'? The Christian answered, 'Let me first ask you, Where is He not?'

To grow a philosopher's beard.

Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? What sinews are those? - A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised; careful resolutions; unerring decisions.

One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay.

Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers.

He raged for hours. And the skeleton, ever the frail and solelmn philosopher, hung quietly inside, saying not a word, suspended like a delicate insect within a chrysalis, waiting and waiting.

Your dog is your only philosopher.

States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers.

Who are the true philosophers? Those whose passion is to love the truth.

A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.

To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.

I thought of the words of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

A philosopher being asked what was the first thing necessary to win the love of a woman, answered, Opportunity!

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed " , and I think he was right.

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work.

It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth.

A thirsty ambition for truth and virtue, and a frenzy to conquer all lies and vices which are not recognized as such nor desire to be; herein consists the heroic spirit of the philosopher.

I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.

Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.

We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.